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14 years ago

Fast & Large block data transfer over USB - DE1/DE2 ?

Hi I have a DE1 fpga module, which has a single USB port that seems to be dedicated to programming. Is it possible to use it to do fast, large block data transfers over the USB ? I see quite a ...
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14 years ago

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I used to have wireshark for windows - did not realise it worked on the usb as well - perhaps just what I need for a related I/O problem I am having doing the same on a Morphic II board.

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Wireshark only supports USB sniffing under Linux.

I tried both the latest version of VMWare (workstation 7.1) and VirtualBox, and neither could capture the USB-Blaster to sniff from Linux in a VM. I installed Ubuntu 11.04 (Wubi - binary blob on the windows partition), and it works great.

I was also doing some testing with a Morph-IC (the older ACEX 1K device).

Cheers,

Dave